Jade O’Belle is an interdisciplinary artist working across moving image, sound, performance, sculptural forms, painting, textiles, and installation. Through cinematic world-building, she explores ritual, remembrance, and ancestral heritage, investigating how memory is carried through the body, material, and landscape. Informed by West African and Indian spiritual traditions, mythology, folklore, and her Black and South Asian lineage, O’Belle’s practice connects personal experience with histories shaped by migration, colonialism, and cultural inheritance.
Research and material exploration are central to her practice. Her material vocabulary brings together moving image, performance, painting, found shells gathered from coastlines and waterways, mirrors, coloured glass, ink, textiles, and found objects. Chosen for their physical, cultural, and symbolic resonances, these materials speak to migration, erosion, ritual, and remembrance, carrying traces of ancestral histories while creating new associations through their transformation.
O’Belle creates immersive, cinematic works where the living, the ancestral, and the imagined exist alongside one another. Through storytelling and material experimentation, she reimagines inherited histories, inviting audiences to reflect on belonging, spirituality, and the ways cultural memory continues to evolve.
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